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Shocking New Treatment for ED
Posted: Tuesday, 24 November, 2009 | Categories: Erectile Dysfunction
Treating erectile dysfunction is generally a painless process. For men who respond well to medication, they just need to get some water, pop a pill and a short while later they should be able to engage in sexual contact.
Israeli researchers however believe they have discovered a potentially permanent cure for erectile dysfunction – great, except that treatment involves electric shocks being delivered to the genital area. The team, from the neuro-urology department at Rambam Medical Centre in Israel, managed to recruit 29 men suffering from erectile dysfunction to take part in trials.
Luckily for them, however, the electric shocks were low-level intensity waves. The pressure was described as less than that exerted by a 60kg women in stiletto heels , which still doesn’t sound too pleasant but was apparently bearable.
The treatment was developed after low-level shockwaves were proved to trigger the growth of new blood vessels from existing ones in animals. The Israeli team, lead by the head of department Yoram Vardi, then speculated that the procedure could help increase blood flow to the genitals of men suffering from erectile dysfunction.
Vardi said, “Cardiovascular problems are responsible for approximately 80 percent of patients with erectile dysfunction, so that's a huge amount of patients.” He explained that the men who took part in the study, who had all experienced mild to moderate problems for three years, where chosen because their ED was related to blood flow rather than to muscle, nerve or other issues. In 15 of the men, significant improvements were reported.
The team believe that while medication can provide a temporary solution, the new treatment is exciting as it could be a permanent cure. Speaking at the European Society for Sexual Medicine conference in France they said they planned further investigations to see how long the positive effects of the treatment continued.
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